Machine for receiving, sorting, and indicating coins.



No. 640 683. Patented Jan. 2, 1900. E. MORIARTY.

MACHINE FOR RECEIVING, SORTING, AND INDICATING COINS.

(Application filed Dec. 27, 1897.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets8heet No. 640,683. Patented Ian. 2, I900.

E. MORIYABTY.

MACHINE FOR RECEIVING, SOBTING, AND INDICATING COINS.

(Application filed Dec. 27, 1897.)

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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MACHINE FOR RECEIVING, SORTING, AND INDICATING COINS.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 640,683, dated January 2, 1900.

Application filed December 27, 1897. Serial No. 663,795. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD MORIARTY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 180 North End road, Fulham, London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to'Machines for Receiving, Sorting, and Indicating Coins and for Delivering Goods or Change in Coins Therefor, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in Great Britain,No. 14L,156,dated July 21, 1893,) of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a till for dealing with coined. money and for sorting and storing the coins received.

This invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of so much of the machine as is necessary for the explanation of this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2 2 of Fig. 4. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 1 '1 of Fig. 2 looking down. Fig. 2 is a view at right angles to Fig. 2. Figs. 3 to 6 are side views, partly in section, illustrating four consecutive positions of the mechanism, as hereinafter explained.

The selecting or sorting till, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is made with or of a chamber A to receive the coins falling therein and adapted to hold such coins upon their edge. This chamber in itself has no floor, and is therefore open at both its upper and lower end, so that it is virtually like a tube of rectangular section. Below it is a fioorin the shape of a grid B of which the bars lie athwart the general length of the chamber and are at such distances apart as to allow certain smaller coins, but not the larger coins, which the till is intended to receive to fall through. The said chamber is hinged near its upper end at A, so as to be capable of rocking, and by so doing of sweeping off from the said grid B the coins sorted thereby, as hereinafter more fully explained. Below the said grid B is another 0, of which the bars coincide with the grid above, but are of greater width, so that the intervals between them are of less width than is the grid B. Certain of the coins which would pass through the upper grid B cannot pass through the lowerone C. There may be other grids below of increasing thickness of bar;

but in ordinary circumstances the two grids will be suificient.

I prefer to make the lower grid 0 movable and place under it a plate or guard C, so that coins falling through this grid are deflected to one side of the plate, as in Fig. 4, to the left; but when the grid 0 is moved away, as in Fig. 3, the coins which were upheld by the grid 0 will fall to the other sidefor instance, the right, Fig. 3-of the said plate 0, and s0 pass to a different destination-for instance, through chute D. The upper grid 13, I prefer to remain fixed, while the chamber A above is made to move or rock, so that when the latter is moved outward, as in Fig. 5, it passes from over the grid B and the larger coins are carried to another destinationfor instance, through the chute E.

In applying this principle to cash-receipt tills there may be a separate compartment A for the copper coins and a separate compartment A for the silver coins. That for the copper coins is made so that the pennies are retained by the first grid B, the halfpennies by the second grid 0, and the farthings or any silver or gold coins that may accidentally be put in smaller than the halfpenny fall through both grids. When the coins are thrown into the chamber, the pennies and halfpennies alone remain there, and upon removing the lower grid O the halfpennies are released and fall into the chute D, the pennies remaining to be dropped into the other chute E when the chamber itself is rocked, as in Fig. 5. This device is of convenience when this till is combined with a change-giving apparatus, since the chutes in whichthe pennies and halfpennies are stored are apt to become soon depleted unless their contents are reinforced from the cash takings. In applying the principle to the compartmentfor the silver the only coins necessary to carry to the change-chutes will usually be siXpenny-pieces. The lower grid 0 herejallows threepenny-pieces to fall through, but retains the sixpenny-pieces. The upper grid B retains all coins above the size of the siXpenny-piece. The movement of the lower grid 0 throws down the sixpenny-pieces to their chute. The subsequent movement of the chamber A'itself releases the larger coins direct to the cash-drawer. If desired, a similar arrangement could be fitted to a gold-receiving compartment. I prefer to arrange above the receivingchamber A of this till a movable roof-plate F, above which is a second chamber G with glass front. The cash takings will not then pass directly into the chamber A, but will remain in view in the upper chamber until the next operation of the machine, when they fall and undergo separation, as previously described. To operate these parts, two rods H J are connected to move together in conjunction with the levers of the machine or with any other handoperated part. The rod H passes through a hole in the end of the lever-arm C on the hinged plate 0, which carries the grid C. At the end of the rod H is a head H, andunder the arm 0 is a spring H on the rod H. The floor F is carried by posts F F pivoted at 15 F and one of them having an arm F whose end engages in a slot J in the rod J. At the end of the rod J is a pivoted trip-dog J which is held thrust against a stop-pin J by a spring J A, which, as already stated, is suitably pivoted at or near its upper edge at A", is a pin A WVhen the rods J H are inthe lowest position, the head H holds down the arm 0 Fig. 3, andthe grid 0 is thus moved back. As the system rises the head H permits the spring H to lift the arm 0 and the grid 0 is released, Fig. 4. As the system further rises the outer inclined face of the pawl J 2 meets the pin A and throws out the chamber A, Fig. 5, thus releasing any coins lefttherein from the previous operation of the machine. As the. system approaches its highest position the pin A falls back under the lower end of the tripdog J and the chamber A falls back again, whereupon the arm F meets the lower extremity of the slot J and the floor F is slid back thereby. Any coins now in the chamber G fall into the chamber A, andsnch as can pass the grid 0 fall out at once. When the system moves down again, the floor. F is pressed back into its place by a spring F the trip-dog J gives for its passage over the pin A and eventually the head H draws down thearm C and the grid is removed, so that the middle-sized coins fall thronghthe grid B into the chute D, Fig. 3. In this position the systemrests until the machine is again operated, so that it is obvious the larger coins re main in the chamber A untilthe nextoperation of the machine.

I claim as my invention- 1. In combination, a receiving-chamber, a removable floor thereto, a rocking chamber, fixed and movable grids on diffierenthorizontal-planes, and means for rocking said chamber and moving one of the grids.

2. In a coin-sorting machine, the combination of a coin-arresting grid ofthe character.

set forth, a device arranged above and movable over the grid forsweeping the-arrested coins therefrom while the grid remains in po- On the end of the chamber tion" of a coin-arresting grid of the character.

set forth, a coin-chute arranged in operative relation to the grid to receive the coins therefrom, a coin receiving chamber arranged above the grid and movable thereover to sweep thearrested coinstherefrom into said chute, and mechanism for operating said chamber when required, substantially as do scribed.

5.. In a coin-sorting-machine, the combination of a stationary coinearresting-grid, amovable coin-arresting grid arranged below the same, coin-chutes arranged in operative rela tion to said grids, a device arranged above and movable over the stationary grid to sweep the arrested coin therefrom into one of said coin-chutes, and mechanism for moving said device and shifting the movable coin-arresting grid from under the stationarycoin-arresting grid, substantially as described. a

6. Ina coin-sorting machine, the combination of a coin-receiving chamber, a movable coin-arresting gridbelow said'chamber, a coin receiving chute located beneath the movable coin-arresting grid to receive the coins there from, and mechanism inoperative connection with said movablegrid to shift or movethe same and cause the coins tofall into said chute, substantially as described.

7. A selecting or sorting till having arocking coin-chamber located above a series of grids of successively-docreasing distance between the bars thereof, some of which grids are movable, and means for rocking the said coin-chamber and the said movable grids for the purpose of removing the sortedcoins anddirecting them into their respective chutes substantially as described.

8. Aselecting-tili having a coin-receiving chamber, a removable door thereto, a rocking chamber below said door, a fixed grid below said rocking chamber and a removable grid below. said fixedgrid and means for rocking said chamber and for moving said removable grid .for the purpose set forth.

9. Thecombination with a fixed grid 13 of a movable bottomless chamber A above said grid or chute D below said grid B a hinged pla'te O havingat its upper ends grid 0 and means for rocking saidcbamber A and-plate O for the purpose set forth.

10. The combination of two chutes Band D of a hinged plate (3' forming in one position a continuation of the wall of chute D and in mess a another position a gate closing said chute D, a grid 0 at the upper end of plate C, a fixed grid 13 extending across the upper end of chute D, a pivoted bottomless chamber A adapted to stand above the grid B means for rocking said chamberA from above grid B to a position above chute E and means for rocking the plate 0' so as to bring its grid 0 under and from the grid B for the purpose set forth.

11. The combination with the rocking chamber A a fixed grid B, a hinged plate 0 and grid 0 on plate 0 of an arm A on chamber A an arm 0 on plate 0 rods J, a trip-dog J 2 pivoted to said rod J adapted to move and trip the arm A and a rod H engaging arm 0 and connected to move with rod J.

12. The combination of a rocking chamber A, a chamber G, aremovable floor F to chamber G pivoted posts F, F, carrying said floor F an arm F connected to one of said posts, an arm A on chamber A, a grid B, a hinged plate 0, a grid-O on said plate an arm (3 connected to said plate, a rod H engaging said 

